Thursday, 6 June 2013

ART: Wolfgang Tillmans

From The New Yorker, May 27, 2013:

There are always knockout photographs in a Tillmans show—several here are the size of picture windows—but individual images never seem to be the point. The German photographer, who lives between Berlin and London, is most successful and influential as an installation artist, mixing representational and abstract, big and small, framed and unframed works in sprawling exhibitions that accumulate power as you walk through them. In Tillmans’s eleventh show at the gallery, travel shots from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East share the space with pictures of sleek car tail-lights, gloriously starry skies, and a fly on a chunk of crab meat. He treats the global village like it was his own back yard.